Five Great Things Found Round Here

[jesse_the_k]

mdbear led me to Switching.Software, a site that offers free, open-source alternatives to the services run by billionaires who are making bad policy decisions. (Whistles loudly to blot out discussions of the choices they’re making)

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solarbird explains how Mastodon and Bluesky users can follow each other through a "bridge"
https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2021328.html

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The annual snowflake_challenge is underway. Following the tag from DW’s "latest things" is a good way to meet new people and reconnect with old pals. petra answered the best canon prompt by linking to Slings & Arrows, season 1, episode 3. The version they linked to is ODavies’s passion project of upscaling older shows and movies in glorious 4K. They look good, and at least Slings & Arrows’s captions survived the transfer (although many ks display as js)

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Although I’ve been deploying pacing strategies to manage my chronic illness (CFS/ME) for 30 years, thanks to sonia for sharing this NHS video, which claims that true resting to recharge the parasympathetic nervous system requires no reading. This is a shocker for me, since I routinely listen to (admittedly low effort) audiobooks and podfics when resting.

How to rest properly to help recovery: watch on YouTube w A+ captions

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Finally, this boomer realizes she’s living in the future: I’ve got a new mutual subscriber barbaratp. She writes in Brazilian Portuguese; I have no language even close. Yet we can mutually understand each other thanks to machine translation. (Of course there are glitches, and thankfully we’re humans and can double check that messages received is the message sent.)

Better than flying cars, really.

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Any lovely things you've found here and wish to share?

ETA: 24 May 2025 correct pronouns

Comments

[lilysea]

"Just resting" is a such a tough thing to do sometimes. The way the boredom of lying there in the dark yet again can trigger feelings of frustration and boredom, thus defeating the whole purpose of rest lol. Solidarity fistbump, bb

Yes, I spend lots of time lying flat on my stomach in bed during the day to rest

but if I lay down in the dark to rest (NOT to sleep)

I would quickly go into one or more of

- worrying
- ruminating
- anxiety spiral
- catastrophising
- becoming more aware of all my chronic aches and pains

[clevermanka]

🫂

[jesse_the_k]

Yep, these are the reasons that background audio is helpful.

Who know, maybe I actually could trust my intuition?